[lbo-talk] Ravitch on education

Mike Beggs mikejbeggs at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 15:48:57 PST 2009


On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> She's a very interesting story - former right-winger who's turned on their
> privatization/charter/testing educational agenda. She also decided at
> roughly the same time that she's a lesbian, which may or may not have
> something to do with it.

Yeah she's turned out alright. I think she was always on the traditionalist side of education policy, i.e. focusing on Great Books etc, which has turned out to have a tension with marketish reforms and the quantitative high stakes testing mentality.

Mike



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